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Turquoise Sky

@climateturquoise.bsky.social
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Lover of books and cats, playing Stardew valley for second time, works on mitigating effects of climate change

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h
So much going on here—but one thing that must be pointed out is the relentless assaults against any Muslim person in public life.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Even with a Dem Congress, there are some ways this all gets worse before it gets better (though it certainly gets worse without a Dem Congress). A Dem Congress won't solve everything. But it can help slow the destruction of our democratic republic.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Our Constitution's founders took the congressional power of the purse -- and especially the need for Congress to have that power for the specific purpose of preventing the Executive from unilaterally building the military -- as a given.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Reminder that Guilfoyle had a not insignificant role in January 6.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sleep deprivation is widely recognized as a technique of cult indoctrination; keeping people too busy and fatigued to truly think for themselves or consider outside perspectives is very effective. Not saying that's intentional in Silicon Valley, but it ends up working that way.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 07/10/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑‍🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio: "Anything that had a chance of making money in Cuba was controlled by the Cuban military and the Cuban communist party to line the pockets of a handful of individuals at the expense of the entire country"
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We can make more jobs and drop the price of electricity while solving the climate crisis, too.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/09/2026
Begging pollsters to just stop for a single hour releasing new surveys with the president hitting new lows so I can finalize these graphs for an article
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
All I can do is laugh about this. The Trump arch is now going to be a land aircraft carrier to keep dc in line. Just a hilariously stupid addled moron.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dems need to get their heads around what a big clusterfuck Iran will be by January. We could be in full-blown energy crisis, 1979-style, with an urgent need to put grown-ups in charge of the war machine (if it is not targeted at Dems before then).
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People love our calendars but every year folks miss the pre-order deadline. Don't be that person 😍.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Think of it as a pop up monument. It's only going to have a two year run.
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Rep. Debbie Dingell @debbiedingell.house.gov · 01/09/2026
As Michiganders struggle to afford gas, groceries, or healthcare, they are also picking up the tab for Trump's tariffs.   Michigan's economy has taken a $23 BILLION hit because of these tariffs. That's an average of almost $6,000 per household. And it’s more than any other state.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 30/08/2026
The GOP captured the Supreme Court in response to decades of progress — but it doesn't have to be this way.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, and California all cleared $4,000 per household in tariff costs, and Michigan blew past every one at $5,619, the highest in the nation. JD Vance campaigns there August 31st with Mike Rogers like that bill never hit anyone’s kitchen table #momsky#sheshed
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/08/2026
You see a lot of glib analysts repeating the line that "Americans just don't want EVs" without taking into consideration that the US auto buying experience is dominated by a network of extremely ignorant, Republican car dealers dependent on the kind of maintenance that EVs don't need.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/08/2026
Good job, California!
bloomberg.com
California Becomes Latest State to Approve Plug-in Solar
States across the country are letting residents install small solar systems without utility permission.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I wrote about the renewable energy industry starting to punch back in the political arena for @rollingstone.com. (featuriing @leahstokes.bsky.social)
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Renewable Energy Is Starting to Spend Big on Elections. It's Working, Too
The renewable energy industry is spending big on elections, including through the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC. It's getting results.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/08/2026
In Gary, Indiana, without refrigeration insulin supplies are being spoiled, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks due to lack of electricity. A public health disaster.
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Cozzy Energy Solutions @energysolutions.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Powering Through the Heat: America's Strained Electricity Grid #MISO #ExtremeHeat #GridReliability #EnergyCrisis #DataCenters #PowerOutages
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Powering Through the Heat: America’s Strained Electricity Grid - Cozzy Energy Solutions
Extreme heatwaves are placing considerable stress on electricity grids across the country, exacerbated by rising energy consumption from data centers. The combination of intense seasonal weather and increasing power demands from manufacturing facilities and artificial intelligence infrastructure is creating significant challenges for the U.S. power system. As temperatures exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), residential
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/08/2026
And it's happening all over.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Let’s win this tomorrow. For democracy.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden? $30 million. The amount special interests have spent against @abdulelsayed.bsky.social in the Michigan Senate race? $60 MILLION. Twice as much to try and buy one Senate seat. It’s the many vs. the money. Vote for Abdul.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What the Iranian attack confirms is that Trump is no longer capable of operating in the real world when it dissents from the Trump as God Emperor narrative. He can't process information that dissents from the narrative. Thus he cannot lead or protect us; and we are in danger bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"
The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/07/2026
Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The personal climate footprint framework is a strategic distraction from going after the fossil fuel industry and other major sources of greenhouse gases. Too, chickens are trivial business compared to cows, let alone to Andy Burnham's apparent decision to go after North Sea oil.
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Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook | Rebecca Solnit
Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We need to get to 100% renewable energy, and the only way we're going to do that is by taking the Chevrons and the Exxons of the world out of our politics.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Tibetan Mastiff, a massive guardian breed originating from the Himalayas. Big Fluffy
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This feels grimly accurate. I think for most people, engagement with the party feels like getting on Temu’s mailing list: Just a neverending stream of spam asking for cash and no other meaningful call to be part of anything that might generate any sense of identity or community.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
More than a third of the electorate didn't vote in 2024's presidential but we're always told that the job is to try to recruit people who hate and disagree with us rather than motivate people who agree with us but need some motivation, which comes from boldness, integrity, not marshmallowismo.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I'm a big fan of split careers--creative people getting work in the trades, med. tech, nursing, etc. that let them make excellent wages and have time for creative work. I've known a number of writers who went this route. Poet/nurse-administrator; cabinetmaker/noir novelist, etc.
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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 20/07/2026
“How many betrayals does it take to get to the center of what many progressives now see as a corporate sellout? Just like the old 1970s Tootsie Pop commercial, the answer seems to be three.” COMMENTARY from Michigan Advance Editor-In-Chief @jonkingnews.bsky.social
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Three licks and a question: Who is Gretchen Whitmer governing for? • Michigan Advance
Three decisions in the course of a week have left organized labor, environmental advocates, and grassroots progressives wondering whether Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is still governing for the coalition tha...
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Really really enjoyed this interview with Mamdani - as always, a masterclass in communication. His answer on creating a big tent party is both excellent and low key savage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...
There are moderates in the Democratic Party who've called to expel the D.S.A. from the Democratic coalition. And I want to flip that around. Is there room in the party you want to create for moderate Democrats?
Yes. Full stop. I'm not interested in expelling people from parties. I think that's what you do when you can't win the debate within the party.
Even if they work with AIPAC? If they are Democrats and they run as Democrats and they win as Democrats, then they should be a part of the Democratic Party. There are people with whom I have vehement disagreements with on any number of topics. But if we can find a place of agreement, that's what I'm going to focus that relationship on. If you're just looking for people who you agree with on everything, then you might as well just stay home and look at a mirror.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
FYI: The Farm Bureau is not a small farmer’s organization or union. It’s an insurance company and lobbyist group. It’s evolved into an arm of the Republican Party.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
Ossoff: "Tonight I heard a failed president desperately casting out for excuses to meddle in the upcoming election if he can, or to discredit the result when he loses decisively as I expect he will"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
Ossoff: "We restore checks and balances by winning this election overwhelmingly"
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A true American hero. Thank you Senator. This will literally save the day.
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Turquoise Sky @climateturquoise.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why can't the centrist Democrats say abolish ICE? What are they afraid of?
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Turquoise Sky @climateturquoise.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Rewarding Bad Behavior: Whitmer edition michiganadvance.com/2026/07/10/w...
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Whitmer vetoes 9 bills at heart of Supreme Court case, which had been ordered to be presented • Michigan Advance
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed the nine bills that were stuck in limbo from the 2023-24 legislative session and were the subject of a Michigan Supreme Court order on Friday, potentially roiling unio...
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This:
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